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hello very good evening chief you just joined us. in our top story it's a decisive day for egypt as people vote on the draft constitution that split the nation and triggered monthlong protests the second and final leg of the referendum was preceded by a fresh outbreak of violence in egypt second largest city of alexandria kind of a chain as bell true explains what's expected from this vote now and whether the outcome is likely to end the turmoil. millions of egyptians across seventeen governorates have headed to the polling stations today to vote in the second and final round of egypt's contentious constitutional referendum yesterday this once again was about to be violent as we saw clashes in this in egypt's second city alexandria between those who are for the constitution very few against the constitution and don't islam is staged a hundred thousand strong rally in support of the constitution and implementation

of sharia law the two sides hold rocks at each other they are cars and buses some saying these buses belong to the muslim brotherhood police intervened with take out leaving seventy seven injured soldiers overseas comes on to the office several instances of violence is in alexandria and in iraq a few weeks ago in cairo and from the presidential palace rival groups clashed leaving ten dead in terms what people are saying here on the streets the country is divided so if you're against the constitution say we're only in for the presidential dictatorship but it lacks a key social economic right it was drafted by islamist dominated assembly so it's for the constitution say it is essential for the progress towards democracy after the concert has drawn so they say we'll have parliamentary elections in the first round of course the votes of people voted in fifty seven percent in favor of the constitution analysts believe that this will be another yes vote this is largely because of the seventeen governorates voting today many of them a rule of cultural places where the muslim brotherhood have quite

a strong as the face of the seventeen voting today only three voted against the president in the process of entry in the presidential elections even many to believe that this will in fact be a yes vote for the opposition forces for that part say that the only reason it was a yes vote in the first round was due to vote rigging rights groups did document several cases of electoral violations including on supervised polling stations leading both rights groups on the opposition forces to call for a rerun of the first round of the referendum saying is actually null and void the issue digital supervision remains a point of contention here thousands of judges continue to boycott the referendum really will have to see the outcome of the results as they come in later on today in the early hours of tomorrow morning but definitely people expect by their own rest in the streets either way that both sides refuse to back down. they'll true there will be time egypt's vice presidents resigned amid the voting reportedly citing disagreements over president morsi as policies despite the fact the new constitution eliminated the post of vice president altogether would make his

departure is seen as premature independent political analyst glazebrook told r.t. earlier the entire situation in the country is a result of hasty actions and rushed decisions breo main problem with this referendum that is being rushed through before egyptians are really had a chance to take on board the momentous up evil of the last year what it signifies and also before they've had a chance to really understand what the policies of the muslim brotherhood actually are so this is all being rushed through has been rushed through deliberately before people had a chance to take stock and before the opposition had a chance to organize themselves as well not to get this was it was a pretty unprecedented the biggest mass movement in egypt in fifty years what we saw bursting of the streets last year in egypt and so the opposition have not really had a chance to you to fully organize themselves to to present a clear program to the electorate and so on the muslim brotherhood of course on the

other hand are organized and have been allowed actually to organize in certain spheres of egyptian right for several decades and if you continue to follow this story closely i can tell you we have more expert analysis of the situation in egypt as well as a time. videos always of on a website out to go home. five hundred dollars that's the cost to u.s. marine sergeant will pay for your innate the cost to a u.s. marine sergeant and insurgents he was demoted then will see his pay docked after admitting to desecration political activity even swanson told me the sentence those too lenient and highlights how the u.s. military as well as touch with reality in afghanistan it's absurdly low it's insultingly low but so is the charge and i mean this is someone guilty of creating corpses of killing human beings who is then prosecuted for having desecrated them after the fact this is this is the problem with our culture of violence that we that we think we're going to civilized war that if we didn't cut off the fingers

and you're an aid on the bodies then it would be ok so we have a long ways to go to get into to a better legal as well as moral understanding because americans like to think that their government must have some justification for what it does it builds the idea that it is ok to occupy the nations of other people we had an incident this week in the united states of other former soldier attacking a mosque to seek revenge for u.s. soldiers who had lost their lives of broad without stopping to understand that they were occupying someone else's country so we have this grew in hatred for muslims for afghans for pakistanis in the united states it is it is the doing of the u.s. government and its occupations and its drone wars but the longer they go on the more the ill will builds both at home and of course in the nations the not hide and

being subjected to drone strikes. well the case once again highlights of concerns over america's continuing presence in afghanistan but president obama says he's hoping to turn a page on a decade of war after naming senator john kerry as the next secretary of state defense analyst over netherlands believe skerries appointment though could lead to a less aggressive u.s. foreign policy and fiscal crisis here and i think we're going to have to retract because of the empire as big and i think you know nothing was ever done about that maybe john kerry will change he probably won't change dramatically because i think united states is into the. perception of running the world and i just don't think we can do it financially and i don't even think it's desirable but i think you know we went into libya we went into you we put more troops in afghanistan those were bad moves in my opinion so i think. you may have a more dovish line coming from kerry than you did from hillary clinton. you're

watching are to good to have your company still to come the problems continue to mount for greece we talk about. four of the country's main banks are looking for ways to stay afloat as we've been reporting after posting massive losses we take a closer look at that but also too. in my view is greed and was minister of regional corporation minister of agriculture minister of housing and construction minister of immigration and unification of justice even held disclosed tenuously israel prepares for elections amid increasing concerns over the country's political process. as a close countdown to christmas many people were making a last minute dust to the shops me included but think. the present is the warning as the recipient might not be that grateful. explains for muscle and bustle of life . most of us know the problem for someone celebrating after that twentieth

christmas buying a present can be perplexing there's nothing they need or don't own already hugh the invention of your humorous christmas present for example the christmas jumper what happens to these presents the day after christmas we ever been given useless christmas presents every christmas and he turned them away on boxing day. probably give it away just to myself feel better and then get rid of them can't you give me an example of a useless christmas present you may never see. i was given a call from work. you probably can't put it on to the other some. woman in a bikini when you pull the hot water and she becomes like it the bikini peels off what was that. a need to. have given been given like just for christmas stuff that you just throw away on boxing day yes what was going and i just.

have only just bought some junk for christmas and i'm i've just bought some junk for christmas we have a very present day on boxing. presents away oh look we just came from australia and so we had a christmas before we came and so over stuff that we got given. straight into the bin junk for christmas no this present sometimes yes to carry them away after christmas absolutely not what you do with them. usually. give them to my sister and i actually have received coloring crayons two years ago so they didn't last long. already and i don't think i'm at the age anymore those who are worried about the status of the planet say that the problem nowadays is that a lot of the items on sale don't have any purpose whatsoever they designed to squeeze a lot of parts of the recipient and then the bin don't. it's about saving

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speak your language. news programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little tonnage of angles the stories. you hear. the spanish find out more visit. the bill but everything u.s. citizens from adopting russian children is being passed by the lower house of parliament here in moscow almost unanimous the vote comes after a series of child abuse cases abroad got a kitchen counter at the stories which led to the latest national. the adoption agreement that russia and the us signed in of ember was designed to provide mechanisms of oversight for russian children adopted by american families but

moscow claims it is still being met with obstacles when it attempts to inquire an adopted children schoolgirls here are so many lies about the real conditions of children adopted by u.s. parents we have no idea what's really going on the united states does not do follow ups once an adoption is finalized there is untold numbers of children that are enduring abuses that haven't been reported that haven't resulted in their gifts that are just surviving the case of alan who was adopted from russia and she was placed in the home of a tete a file she was discovered because of a a child pornography sting and she told reporters and such that she waited every day and kept praying and believing that somehow the adoption agency that placed her there would come back and check on her and she would have been able to tell them but nobody ever came much of the fury in moscow over the brutal

treatment of adopted russian children has been driven by the leniency american judges of shown towards a number of abusers the adoptive father of two year olds who may get a couple was acquitted after she forgot the boy his car for nine hours the toddler died of heat stroke the parents of russian born aceh craver have been released on bail after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter. the quavers have dodged a murder sentence even though investigators discovered that the child had suffered repeated beatings from his adoptive parents which left him with over eighty bruises and injuries of which twenty were to his head judges have also shown leniency in cases of abuse which did not result in the death of the child jessica big probation after she went on the popular t.v. show and bragged of how she disciplined her adopted russian child by systematically cramming hot sauce into his mouth and putting him under a cold shower russian officials say they were denied any access to another washroom for

a bio who was allegedly abused by his foster parents according to florida quoted that at a time when the adoption rate in russia itself is low the situation of u.s. adoptions seems even more dire the u.s. accounts for around a third of all foreign adoptions in russia and there are hundreds of successful case developments over whether that good work can continue the argument that if there's a flight as chance were an orphan to find a happy home they should be given that chance is undoubted just as indisputable seems the or given that there has to be more oversight over the well being of these children because with the way things are now dozens of adoptive children could be subject to abuse right at this moment and we may never find out in washington i'm going to check. on a few one russians made into a list of the world's most dangerous people we're talking about some u.s. magazine lined up to found. a mexican drug lord syria's president

assad is a threat to washington. local russian deputies initiated an investigation into lady gaga played a show in some petersburg fearing she promoted quote homosexual propaganda but what exactly spot the official discontent want to read up about it is online from us. all four of greece's largest banks securing up for a bailout post now after reporting huge losses this year together they'll need around twenty seven billion euros worth of loans to stay afloat greece has been relying on international bailout funds since twenty ten then there's economist

demetrius in an opera list told me it's all very greeks who are bearing the brunt of the banks losses the loans on which. this recapitalization of banks. are coming from the troika the e.u. the i.m.f. and the e.c.b. and they are going to be a they're going to be part of the greek it national debt which is going to be paid by the taxpayer and we had forty thousand small businesses closing in closing this year alone three hundred additional thousand of job losses as a total unemployment rate of twenty six percent so we have really. on the one hand austerity on the other hand banks inability to provide liquidity for the markets. greaseman of appearing for another year of

painful cuts and tax hikes but for a wider look at where the global economy stands at the end of twenty twelve we waded into the kaiser report on air again here again seven thirty g.m.t. . it's been five years since the beginning of the global financial collapse governments are eating their own vomit central banks are smoking their own belly button lead analyst still don't know whether we deflation inflation hyper inflation since you haven't even we have crazy felician that we're going to try to determine this will get a little bit closer to whether we have inflation deflation hyperinflation in this was my dad served money fairy queen. on a more serious note international news in brief a suicide blast during a political rally in northwest pakistan has killed at least eight people and left

twenty five wounded reports claim a provincial cabinet minister was critically wounded in the explosion is secretary police chief also apparently been killed in the pakistani militant group linked to the taliban's claimed responsibility. hundreds of students are going clashed with police in chile of what's been more than a year and a half of protests there now leaders of the student movement say they're fed up with low standards of private universities the students what a major victory two days ago with chile's justice minister who has ties to one of the colleges was forced to resign over a corruption scandal. place a protest clashed in india's capital leaving several people injured demonstrators calling for the death penalty to be handed down to six men accused of gang rape and the brutal beating of a twenty three year old student. seeking life in prison for the same. for israel the new year will be marked by an election for the new parliament happening earlier than planned for many frequent voting is the embodiment of democracy but

the rapid turnabout of ministers and governments is leading to calls for an overhaul of the entire political system. is the latest call us money or should we. i was minister of regional cooperation minister of agriculture minister of housing and construction minister of immigrant and as option and minister of justice even held this post signal tenuously but it doesn't mean i'm talented at what it just shows that the system is so messed up to be toyed. it's a system that's been in place since the founding of the state sixty four years ago it's seen thirty four governments in sixty four years that's a new israeli government almost every two years and a new minister just as often in the last twenty years there have been twenty interior ministers fourteen foreign ministers and fifteen justice ministers and now more and more israelis are saying enough and joining a movement to change the political system as i say a little quote but how about

a young citizen ghost elections so many times you starts to lose the sense that this is a democracy not for nothing of the past ten years voter turnout has decreased from eighty to sixty four percent where the be able. to keep well as eventually as it was it was. but reforming the system is unpopular and has created controversy this online campaign by local celebrities shows whenever someone tries to talk about it they're interrupted. him a prime minister says he must call for election day motions are prime minister says if he's scared that his coalition members may bring down his government and we will act as if that's normal we really say there's no problem with our system. critics say israel's multi-party system gives too much power to smaller parties. we're going to show more that the system here weakens the political center and gives a lot of power to the sick to all parties ultra orthodox ultra rightists right wing

extremists and so on and in fact the soon to be becomes a hostage to these marginal groups there is no democracy there's minor roots when crissy the minority rules over the majority. another problem is that because government ministers change so often they can't plan i on. the bench when i was buying today a minister in the state of israel serves for an average of one year until he understands the position and creates a vision in the long term planning he's no longer there. and that's not what many of these people want is a complete overhaul of the system with parliamentary elections slated for early next year israelis are bound to see yet another round of deal making between parties who make up the next coalition but the tone of months is running fun with latest figures suggesting more than half the population is unhappy with its government's performance policy r.t.

tel aviv. delighted to have your company tonight of our team talking stay with this we had to washington studios for the next half hour for couple a cat with lauren this time. if you're passing through rushes to be a region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoiled countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the a lot of times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive the heart of just us forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to

a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here. this is wolf island here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up and this is where i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called file and a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys going to act as pasta parents for the next generation will come here using the old awards as surrogate parents has already proved

a successful technique. every year i place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs whose parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolf's reputation in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication will mean that we foil and remains a place where visitors can truly understand all of the while. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lister here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for friday december twenty first two thousand and twelve today is a good time to reflect on this. mayan calendar which predicts. on the twenty first of this year. that will be today and the world didn't

end i think it's fair to say so we will reflect on what may lie ahead in the coming new year reflect on this here in economic trends dave column is a cornell chemistry professor but he's known in finance for his annual year in review which is out today and he is here in studio to talk about it let us stocks drop as house republicans cancel a vote on the fiscal cliff hits stock markets those were how the headlines read today when i came into work but is this just white noise we'll talk about signs of a broken market that go far beyond the day to day news purportedly moving them plus from market scandals to our very own we'll break down what you loved and hated this week and your feedback let's get to today's capital account.

well the world didn't end today as some argue the mayan calendar predicted but this millennial error can at least teach us a thing or two about the pitfalls of prediction something fitting given the nature of financial forecasts and also fitting as our guest references it in a small way in his two thousand and twelve year in review he writes this review every december and this year it covers the gamut from broken markets to broke students saddled with more debt than those charging up their credit cards it's out today you can read it chris martenson is web site which is pretty peak prosperity dot com and you can hear him talk about it now on our show because david column is here he's the betty are miller professor of chemistry at cornell university and author of the year in review out for two thousand and twelve today so first thanks for being on the show and it's my pleasure second let's talk about why you as an

organic chemistry professor or are known for writing a financial economic investment year in review that's out today why does anybody care about your views on on this subject. it's an excellent question actually. i'm pretty good at distilling complexity down to simplicity so i take a weed whacker to these complex markets we have and it's a hobby of mine. and at the end of each year i summarize what i see and then and i i try to find the plotline within the noise and so there's huge numbers of offense that. occur during the year but come on michael lewis' way i attempt to figure out where there's actually a theme occurring and where the most interesting one is sort of a wise guy so i was a bit wise guy people always appreciate that before we get into what some of the main themes are for this year do you think your investment track record as an individual investor.